Yunnan Zhuang and Guangxi Zhuang homologous, is China's longer history of a nation, as early as in the third century BC, living in today's Guangxi, Yunnan Zhuang people and then the central plains people have a relatively close interaction. Historically, the Zhuang people have been good at using abundant water resources to grow rice, and the women are good at weaving and embroidery. The Zhuang cloth and brocade woven by them are famous for their exquisite patterns and bright colors, and the unique style of "batik" is also praised by people. In clothing, men and Han Chinese not much difference, women are colorful, especially like in shoes, hats, breast pocket with five-color silk thread embroidered with flowers, figures, birds, animals, flowers, a variety of colorful.
The Zhuang people are also famous for singing mountain songs, which have a gentle language, rhyme and infectiousness. Mountain songs include ancient songs that tell history, "production songs" that teach life skills, as well as "wine songs" and "love songs". Folk songs are mainly "bitter songs", such as "long labor songs" and "women's bitter love songs". The Zhuang are also good dancers, with a long history of "copper drum dance", rhythmic and robust dance. The traditional festivals of the Zhuang people are mainly "Longduan" (Zhuang language, the meaning of catching the field dam), which is rumored to have a history of more than 700 years, originally to commemorate the national hero Nong Zhigao (Zhuang) in April 1052 A.D. rose up against the Song dynasty's deeds. Now, Longduan Street has developed into a traditional festival for the people of Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Yi and Han ethnic groups around Funing County to exchange materials and **** with the celebration. Other festivals of the Zhuang people are the same as those of the Han people.
The Zhuang
Chinese minority. They are mainly found in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces and regions. In 1990, the population was 15.48 million. The population is 15.48 million in 1990. They use the Zhuang language, which belongs to the Zhuang-Dai branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was already a square Chinese character composed of local vulgar characters. In 1955, the Zhuang script based on the Latin alphabet was created and popularized, and in 1982 it was partially revised.
The Zhuang are an indigenous people of Lingnan with a long history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a branch of the Baiyue, and was first called the Boys and the Bangding during the Southern Song Dynasty. Ming and Qing Dynasty with the soil, Yi, sand and called. People's Republic of China *** and the establishment of the unified "boy", according to Zhou Enlai's initiative in 1965, approved by the State Council, the "boy" to "Zhuang".
The Zhuang region has a wide distribution of limestone rocks, and is a world-famous karst region with rocky mountains rising up from the ground, and caves and underground rivers in the rocky mountains. This kind of terrain constitutes the famous scenery of "Guilin's landscape is superior to the rest of the world, and Yangshuo's landscape is superior to Guilin's." The coast is rich in various kinds of valuable seafood. The coast is rich in various kinds of valuable seafood, especially the southern pearls. The Zhuang region has a mild climate and plenty of rainfall, and is mainly an agricultural area, growing rice, corn, potatoes, etc. Fruit is also abundant. Fruits are also abundant, and the forest area is wide, producing Liuzhou fir, silver fir, camphor wood and other valuable timber. The famous Panax ginseng, mealy bugs and aniseed oil are the long-established specialties of the Zhuang region.
The Zhuang people are good at singing, and the annual singing of songs, called Song Wei, is held regularly. To the lunar calendar on the third day of the third month is the most grand. The big song dike has more than 10,000 people to participate. Known as the song fairy Liu Sanjie is a typical representative of the Zhuang singers. Song Wei period also held between men and women throwing embroidered balls, touch eggs and other recreational activities, eat five-color glutinous rice, singing Zhuang opera, and material exchanges, and so on, wishing a bumper harvest. In the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang people already had dances. Guangxi Ningming, Longzhou and other places on the steep cliffs left the Zhuang ancestors painted many cliff murals. The casting and use of copper drums has a history of more than 2,000 years among the Zhuang. Zhuang brocade is a renowned textile craft.
Marriages among the Zhuang used to be arranged by parents, but love was free before marriage. The custom of not leaving the husband's home or "sitting at home" is still practiced in some places. Most of the housing is the same as that of the local Han Chinese. Part of the area residents live in a two-story dry fence, upstairs people, downstairs livestock pile. In recent years, there have been changes, the implementation of people and animals live separately. Clothing most of the same as the Han Chinese, but there are still many places still retain the characteristics of the national costume, and vary from place to place. Men mostly wear Tang clothes. Clothing materials used to be mostly self-woven cloth. In the past, there was the custom of tattooing, which has now changed. In terms of diet, they like to eat pickled and sour food, and sashimi is their favorite dish. The staple food is rice and corn. During the New Year festivals, rice is used to make various kinds of Zhuang women's powder and cakes. Women have the custom of chewing betel nut. When they get married and give bride price, they must give betel nut. In addition to ancestor worship, there is also nature worship, such as sacrificing to the god of the mountains, the god of the water, the god of the sun and so on. After the Tang and Song dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism have been introduced to the Zhuang area. In recent times, there are missionaries to the Zhuang towns to establish Christian and Catholic churches, but the impact is not great.
In the Zhuang settlement, when people meet the old man on the road, they must take the initiative to greet the old man and step back to the side of the road to ask the old man to pass first. When the old man enters the house, the old man should be invited to sit on the upper seat, if someone crosses his legs and sits in front of the old man, it is considered to be disrespectful to the old man and will be condemned by the crowd.